Eventbrite, and certain approved third parties, use functional, analytical and tracking cookies (or similar technologies) to understand your event preferences and provide you with a customized experience. By closing this banner or by continuing to use Eventbrite, you agree. For more information please review our cookie policy.

Location

Refund Policy

Description

12 noon | Vogue Theatre | Ticketed Event | All Ages

TICKETS AVAILABLE AT THE DOOR

Join us for not one, but two great GSD films at the Vogue Theatre in Fernie, BC.

Gross Indecency: Most young Canadians know Pierre Elliott Trudeau's famous 1967 quote, "There's no place for the state in the bedrooms of the nation". But they probably don't realize the then soon-to-be prime minister was talking about a Calgary bus driver named Everett Klippert.

Klippert was the last man in Canada jailed simply for being gay, and he spent more than a decade total behind bars. The high-profile case prompted Trudeau, who was justice minister at the time, to introduce in the omnibus bill that eventually decriminalized same-sex sexual activity between two people over age 21 in Canada in 1969.

Gross Indecency documents the story of Everett Klippert. Kevin Allen, of the Calgary Gay History Project and Fernie Pride Society board member, tries to understand Klippert and his place in LGBTQ history. Kevin will be on hand to introduce the film.

Transformer: In the summer of 2015, former US Marine and world record weightlifter Matt "Kroc" Kroczaleski was publicly outed as being transgender. The reaction was universal: her sponsors abandoned her, she was disowned by her parents, banned from competing, and she changed her name to "Janae". This film follows Janae as she attempts to find her place in society. Initially wanting to strip off the muscle and become a much smaller looking woman, she found herself unable to lose the muscle she so desperately gained. She now finds herself living one day as an alpha male and the next day as a delicate girl.